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#15
Originally Posted by deadmalc View Post
Whooa! Exile on the n900, that would be so cool!
Well, since you asked:



And the obligatory Elite:



I don't think I'll play with this much more, though, because:
  1. Beebem is not to my knowledge free-as-in-speech software, only free-as-in-beer, and I don't know of another good Beeb emulator for *nix;
  2. Even if Beebem was free software, it's still unclear about the legality of distributing the Beeb's MOS and BASIC roms, without which the emulator would be useless;
  3. Beebem updates the screen for every scanline, which causes it to be very slow on modern computers (on my laptop as well as the N900): slower than a real BBC Micro, in fact. This could be fixed by doing things with OpenGL, but that's not really my area;
  4. I have a whole lot of other things to do

Still, it's nice to have demonstrated that it's possible.

Last edited by marnanel; 2009-09-17 at 16:14. Reason: fix reason it's slow
 

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